Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-04 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote: > Sorry this took so long.  As usual, things got inserted ahead of it in > the priority queue.  :-p > > Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the > already-implemented 174.  It cuts down time-to-first-byte for HTTP > requests by 25 t

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-04 Thread Kevin Bauer
> Assuming you mean "stream" instead of "circuit" here, then, as above, I > think most HTTP connections would be in this category. It might be > interesting to examine some HTTP traces to see, though. target="Kevin">Kevin, you were looking at some HTTP traces for other > reasons, right? Anythin

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-04 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 08:42:33PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > Ian Goldberg wrote: > > > Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the > > already-implemented 174. It cuts down time-to-first-byte for HTTP > > requests by 25 to 50 percent, so long as your SOCKS client (e.g. > > webfetch,

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Client Side

2011-06-04 Thread Fabian Keil
Ian Goldberg wrote: > Anyway, here's the client-side sibling proposal to the > already-implemented 174. It cuts down time-to-first-byte for HTTP > requests by 25 to 50 percent, so long as your SOCKS client (e.g. > webfetch, polipo, etc.) is patched to support it. (With that kind of > speedup, I